The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-11-17

crushed hopes that no future can restore
| These dire and calanjtoas blows fell
heavier nnon the farmer than all other
classes combined. 1t was an effort a
struggle, a battle. - survive
Fgaln these remark .ble conditions, there
has j. en- an output of crushing rates of
| inte est, which has placed. and is placing
the farmers between the upper and neither
mill stones. Labor and capital or inter
| terest at the North. it bears OstenSlby at
the South 10 per cent But under what
condition is this paid? The farmer is
placed in the main. outside of the capacity
to control the result of his own products
Now it is certainly within the province
of the State to have enforced such laws,
as to guard its citizens from oppression
| and frauds The means provided to pro-
tect the farmer from guano frauds and
sales and weights of product, are very in
adequate, and know of no leak that has
| been greater to his purse or which he has
more severely felt.
Money is "A commodity, as all other ar
ticles of value. But there should be such
legislation, us to promote its distribution
and facilitate its circulation. and not have
directed the whole machinery of Govern
ment to protect monopolists in boarding
the capital of the country. Debts or liza
bilities or obligations created, should be
faithfully filed. But as ulcers crop out
and grow and feed upon the breast of
progress s-crippling its energies and eX
| hausting It's resources, it is the plain duty
| of the Government-as far as its power
lies-to give its citizens protection, to
throw around them, its shield of safe
guards
The great principles evolved in the
frame work of our Government, which
h,, +1,t-. flfI+ -
zens-is to give all Of its industries, all
classes, equal privileges and to guard
them with the aegis of the constitution.
There are further wants of the farming 2
interests-they clearly need two insJitu-
tions, an agricultural and mechanical col
lege and an agricultural station. The
annex to the South Carolina College
should be either greatly enlarged, or a
distinct institution established he i'm
mense interest at stake would seem to de-
mand its independent action and not
trammeled by annexes. We need Il changei
but how are We to reach it? The expert
mental station should teach this-for the
country (be it said with regret,) is too
poor to attempt lt-and besides it is in
competent to execute it. Experiments in
grasses adapted to grazing purposes and
the growth Of hay as a merchantable crop
+ in manures, III grains, IN tObacco-the
castor oil bean, hemp, flax, jute, fruit,
grapes and winemaking, silk worms and
silk-and discover and work out the in
dustry most suitable to our wants, if there
is enough left of the country, by the time
we reach it, to be of any service
| would like to dwell more upon these
institutions, but time and your patience
will not allow it. Any cursory observer
will see their Importance and | hope the
t.fp il to q
establish and maintain them and to do
it thoroughly-for we want no halfway
business, as there is too much at stake.
We now enter upon the consideration
of two others of the many crushing evils
bearing heavily upon the farmer-ana
through him upon the general industries
of tie country, and which tend to shackle
his energies and throttle his enterprise.
Keeping him poor, almost to yagrancy
and without change must end III his
final overthrow.
When the landed property of not only
this, but many splendid States, will pass
into stranger hands, a;d the plaintivt
notes of the sweet prophet Of Israel viii
resound through the land that lin Rama
/ was there a voice heard d-lamentation and
weeping and great ing-Rache
weeping for her children and would not
be coultorted, because they were not, an6
strange. as il may seem, while they place
the farmer IN the coils of Want-fattel
and batten monopoiies and monied power
/ allude to the tariff and National Bank
ing system. In times of complete peace
We are facing oppressive war measures
that are grinding the farming interests OF
these United States in to the very dust
and ashes, to bolster up large monopolie;
and corporations. The people are taXet
under the apparent pretext OF being en-
, abled to pay labor such wages as to place
them above want. While making this
plea before the country to gloss over thell
designs, they are importing foreign labor
to conflict with, and supplant native borr
citizens. Those engaged in the late strike
and disturbances at the North were princi
paliy Hohealians and Hungarians imported
at recent date and thoroughly impreg
mated with those subversive doctrines o
anarchy, so ruinous to a we'll ordered so
ciety Has it benefited the laborer
Ought Government to deal in subsidie
or protect any industry that cannot sur
: vive by its own elasticity and capabilities
p The doctrine is opposed to the spirit ant
essence of our institutions The hoardin:
Of hundreds of millions in the Fedora
+, treasury, taken from its proper channel
:, of circulation, makes money dear ant
: products low We have reached appalling
a conditions. By pap and plunder and pre-
lection, corporations have attained sue
protection, as to place IN jeopardy tn
: very principles of our Government. BE
= fore them free government and universe
= suffrage stand arraigned.
: The immense expenditures OF the wal
. were created vaues-all the greenback
= issued by the National Government. wa
sc much capital gained, and it has foun
! its home at the North. All taxes to pre-
;, tect industries, manu- actories, and corpt
= = rations, finds its pillow in the Norther
" breast Millions of pension money max
its annual stream into this great basin {
q capital, and the greater gains to indivlt
II uals the greater the suffering and distres
l. and irritation of the masses. There
IS somewhere a radical mistake in the tinal
Il oial. system of the country.
% The National Banks by their charter al
, endowed with great privileges. They al
Is untaxed, while State banks are taxed
Is per cent. United States bonds are unta-
II ed and the interest paid in gold and fro
the National Banks as a financial agen
D. the whole farming interests Of these Tn
g ted States is excluded. Consequently the
y capital is used In other channels, and
y procured for the farmer, additional vail
ia and expense is given by middlemen.
- In 'S5 their capital amounted to 1924, ,599, q
l. Hoarded by the Treasury, say. 100000 @